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COMMUNITY PAGE Resources for the community of people interested in ski jumping ... We’re featuring a column by Dan “Mouse” Warner, one of our USASJ board members ... it’ll appear from time to time during ski season. We hope you enjoy this feature!

Ask Mouse? -by Dan Warner djwandro (at) roadrunner.com Herb says, “Mouse when you headed to LP?” “Well Herb, it’s summer when it should be winter! I hear they are still water skiing on Lake Placid at Turkey Day!” Herb just smiled. Not good!! And so it continues even now as the weather still is not the greatest. And it seems as it not only here in the East but all over the world. It's been tough sledding as there is no real snow, only man made, and that has been a struggle as the temps have been not there to make snow either. Many events have been cancelled all over and things are not looking good on the horizon. “Why does this matter?” you might ask. Well, not many places have good snowmaking set ups and if you are at an alpine area the trails will get done before the jumps or XC courses. Those sites that are lucky enough to have snowmaking have had a hard time getting going and keeping hills up and running. In LP we are snowing the 90 tower for the 4th time and it's just Jan 3rd. If our smaller hills around the East are not snowed skiers will turn to other forms of sport so it is critcal to get jumps ready. The ski sales biss also depends sites being open so skis can get sold. This will have a domino effect if things do not change soon. What can we do? Find out how you can help. Maybe offer to tend guns for a night. Or if you can help with hill prep do that. Any way you can help keeps our positive momentum going. In other words get involved!! Mouse (e-mail address at top of panel) Info on ALL the world’s ski jumps www.SkiSprungSchanzen.com US National Ski Hall of Fame http://skihall.org American Ski Jumping HOF (online) www.americanskijumping.com

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